17 May 1914

On 17 May 1914 at Nevers, France, Madame Lucienne Cayat de Castella ascended to a height of 800m (2500 feet) while suspended horizontally by a belt under the fuselage of a Goupy Type M biplane. She then descended using a parachute designed by her husband. She would die about two months later at an exhibition in Brussels, when her parachute malfunctioned.